Final Sunset Permadeath

Hardcore death penalties for the Final Sunset modpack. When you die for real, you lose all your loot and skills — but the gear you were wearing stays in your grave to be recovered.

What happens on death

Slot	Result
Equipped gear (armor, weapon, shield, cape, utility, trinket)	KEPT IN GRAVE — walk back to your tombstone to recover
Hotbar (slots 1-8)	DESTROYED
Inventory (backpack grid)	DESTROYED
Food / ammo / quick / misc slots	DESTROYED
All skill levels	RESET TO 0
Tombstone	Holds only your equipped gear

Non-equipped items are permanently destroyed — not dropped, not recoverable. Skills are fully zeroed, not just reduced. Your worn gear survives in the tombstone and re-equips when you collect the grave.

Edge case safety (v1.1)

Boss fights / multi-death: Each client tracks tombstone instance IDs before and after death. Only the tombstone created by YOUR death is processed — never another player's, never an old uncollected one.
Old tombstones nearby: Instance-ID tracking means proximity doesn't matter. Your old tombstone 1m away is safe.

How equipped gear is kept (v1.2)

In the CreateTombStone Prefix the plugin snapshots the object references of every item currently equipped on the player — captured before those items move into the tombstone. In the Postfix it removes everything from the new tombstone except those snapshotted references (with the m_equipped flag as a fallback). Because the references survive the move, this works even if the game clears the equipped flag during death processing.

SecondChance compatibility

This plugin is fully compatible with BalrondSecondChance's downed/revive system:

Downed (HP reaches 0): SecondChance activates. You can be revived by a friend (free) or self-revive with MeadHealthMinor. No permadeath penalties applied.
Dead (revive timer expires): Permadeath penalties fire. Non-equipped items destroyed, equipped gear left in grave, skills reset.

The plugin detects real death vs downed state by tracking whether CreateTombStone was called inside OnDeath. If SecondChance blocks death (downed state), no tombstone is created and the plugin skips.

Server enforcement (v1.2)

The server requires this mod on every connecting client, at a matching major.minor version (1.2.x). This is enforced through Jötunn's NetworkCompatibility(EveryoneMustHaveMod, VersionStrictness.Minor):

A client missing the mod → rejected at the connection screen.
A client on an older version (e.g. 1.1.x) → rejected with a version-mismatch UI listing the offending mod.
A client on 1.2.x → allowed.

This guarantees death processing is identical for everyone — nobody can join with a stale build and lose (or keep) the wrong items. Requires Jötunn (listed as a dependency).

Installation

Install on the server and all clients (required — both the network check and client-authoritative death processing depend on it). Every player who can die needs a matching 1.2.x build.

Drop FinalSunsetPermadeath.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ or install via Thunderstore Mod Manager. Jötunn must also be present.

Verification

Check BepInEx console on startup for:

FinalSunsetPermadeath v1.2.0 loaded | skillData=ok level=ok acc=ok createTombStone=ok

On death, console will show:

[FinalSunsetPermadeath] Tombstone [id=XXXXX]: kept N equipped item(s) in grave, destroyed M item(s)
[FinalSunsetPermadeath] Reset N skill(s) to level 0